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So much fun? American players spend $32.6 billion a year on puzzle games

[CNMO News] Recently, the Sensor Tower store released a new data, which shows that in the past year, the spending of American players on puzzle mobile games has increased by 4.2% to 5 billion US dollars (equivalent to about 32.6 billion yuan).

So much fun? American players spend $32.6 billion a year on puzzle games

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In the past year (April 1, 2021 - March 31, 2022), the highest-spending puzzle game in the United States is "Candy Crush Saga", which has been recharged for $845 million a year. In second place are Playrix's elimination and decoration mobile game Homescapes (Chinese Dream Home) and Candy Crush Soda Saga (National Costume Candy Soda Legend) produced by the king. Puzzle games in the U.S. market had the highest revenue in the match-3 category, with revenue up 12.3% year-over-year to $161 million.

So much fun? American players spend $32.6 billion a year on puzzle games

Revenue from in-app purchases of Puzzle Games in the United States

In terms of downloads, puzzle games have been downloaded 554 million times in the U.S. market in the past year, down 20% year-on-year, because too many people have downloaded it before, but the total size of the market has not changed. Among them, the first download is "Project Makeover", the second is "Wordscapes", and the third is "Candy Crush Saga". Among the many puzzle genres, the "Other Puzzle" genre has the highest number of downloads, with nearly 164 million downloads in the past year, including Woodoku (a wooden block nine-square elimination game) and Brain Test (a brain teaser game).

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